WEBVTT AMANDA: STEWART, NOT ONLY DIDTHE FBI GET ON THE PLANE TOARREST HIM, THAT ONE OF THEPASSENGERS WHO HELPED TIE HIM UPTOLD ME IT TOOK A TOTAL OF FOURMEN AND ALL OF THE FLIGHTATTENDANTS TO BRING THIS UNRULYPASSENGER UNDER CONTROL.HE SAID SOME PEOPLE WERE SOFRIGHTENED, THEY WERE SOBBING.THIS IS CELL PHONE VIDEO OF FBIAGENTS BOARDING AN AIR CANADAFLIGHT IN ORLANDO MONDAY NIGHT.THE PLANE WAS HEADED FROMJAMAICA TO TORONTO BUT MADE ANEMERGENCY LANDING AT OIA TO DEALWITH A VIOLENT PASSENGER.ACCORDING TO THE CRIMINALCOMPLAINT, 34-YEAR-OLD BRANDONCOURNEYEA'S ODD BEHAVIOR STARTEDWITH YELLING AT FELLOWPASSENGERS FOR LOOKING AT HIM.FLIGHT ATTENDENTS AND A TORONTOCITY COUNCILMAN, WHO HAPPENED TOBE ON THE FLIGHT, TRIED TO CALMCOURNEYEA BUT SAY HIS AGITATIONESCALATED.MICHAEL THOMPSON: WE ATTEMPTEDTO TRY TO REASON AND TALK WITHHIM, TO TRY TO GET HIM TO CALMDOWN AND SO ON, BUT WE'RE NOTSURE WHY IT DIDN'T OCCUR, BUT WEWERE NOT SUCCESSFUL.AMANDA: THOMPSON SAYS AT ONEPOINT COURNEYEA LEFT HIS SEATAND HEADED TO THE BACK GALLEYWHERE HE SWUNG COFFEE POTS ATFLIGHT ATTENDANTS AND TRIED TOOPEN THE EXIT DOOR.MICHAEL THOMSPON: I HAD APARTICULAR ENCOUNTER WITH THEHOT COFFEE POT THAT HE WASTHREATENING TO THROW ON ME.I WAS SIMPLY TRYING TO PREVENTHIM FROM TAKING CERTAIN ACTIONS,WHICH I THOUGHT WOULD PERHAPSENDANGER SAFETY OF PLANE ANDTHE PASSENGERS THEMSELVES.AMANDA: THOMPSON SAID IT TOOKHIMSELF AND FOUR OTHER MALEPASSENGERS WORKING ALONG WITHTHE FEMALE FLIGHT ATTENDENTS TO

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Updated: 7:14 PM EDT May 17, 2017

ORLANDO, Fla. —

An Air Canada flight from Jamaica to Toronto was diverted to Orlando after authorities say a passenger became aggressive, attacked the crew with coffee pots and tried to open the cabin door.

A federal criminal complaint says crew members and other passengers, including Toronto City Councilman, Michael Thompson, secured Brandon Michael Courneyea using zip ties.

The FBI was contacted about the incident just after 7:30 p.m. Monday and the plane landed at Orlando International Airport just after 8 p.m.

Investigators said Courneyea yelled at passengers for "looking at him." He then grabbed a coffee pot from the galley and swung it at crew members before saying it would "only take one guy to take the plane down." He lunged for a rear door and began pulling the lever.

"I had a particular encounter with a hot coffee pot that he was threatening to throw on me. I was simply trying to prevent him from taking actions I thought would endanger safety of the plane and passengers themselves," Thompson said.